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Palmy,
Thanks a lot I really appreciate your time and effort! You have explained a few mysteries of coding to me and I have had partial success.I have attached some thumbnails.
Some Weird wind directions in Aus; SEW SEE W W etc. The "Pr" is still missing and I have a mystery 0 at the end of line 3

I would say the extra "W" at the end of line three would be caused by the code not clearing all the text before re-writing the new value. I see your last value in the image is "SSE", I would suspect that the "W" would now be replaced by an extra "E" due to this text clearing issue. I had this problem when I first started developing the LCD code too.

The same could apply for the extra "0" at the end of line four. The only thing I can think that would be putting a zero in that location is the start-up screen which gives a 0 or 1 return when the outside sensors transmit to the RX unit before the weather data is displayed. Maybe another screen clearing issue.

You may want to double check to ensure you have 20 blank spaces when clearing the LCD display. There is probably a much better way of clearing the LCD display than writing text to it like this.

I do not have any ideas at the moment as to why the pressure would not be displaying correctly, especially when everything else like "rain", "UV" and "solar" are coming through fine. If you would like, feel free to Private Message me the code in the "LCD204" file and I will compare it with what I have to see if I can see anything obvious. I can not guarantee when I will get this done however.

Have you tried running your code with Knots as the wind speed following any modifications you may have made this evening? I might give this a go myself and see what I get as I have not tested this before; I did not really expect to ever publish the adapted code.

Great news, Barrow4491 is now all set up with his custom display. After seeing the code that was being used, there was one little error. on this line, the "d" in display was a lower case, when it should have been a capital "D".

#if Wind_Display_Unit == 3

I hope by showing this custom LCD display code will get others thinking about ways they can use this fanatic software and customise it to their requirements.

(16-10-2016, 08:29)Palmyweather Wrote: [ -> ]Great news, Barrow4491 is now all set up with his custom display. After seeing the code that was being used, there was one little error. on this line, the "d" in display was a lower case, when it should have been a capital "D".

#if Wind_Display_Unit == 3

I hope by showing this custom LCD display code will get others thinking about ways they can use this fanatic software and customise it to their requirements.

Matt,
I would like to express my sincere thanks to you for the assistance freely given both on the forum and by PM.
This sort of guidance is what assists a community with common interest, but not fully competent in all aspects of the project, learn something every day and I look forward to further enhancements to what is a fantastic project.(ie the possibility of air quality monitoring for example)
Jim
Regards
Jim

Matt,
I have updated to the latest software with the "palmy_lcd204" file replacing the supplied one and all is good.(thanks)
I am going to build the Pro2 Plus receiver board as I think (reading between the lines) that it is going to eventually support air quality monitoring and has a great display.
It looks to have inbuilt Wifi to support direct connection to the web via the local net, and the ability to control other devices.
An ever evolving project_fabulous!!!!
Regards
Jim

I am pleased to tonight show off my completed "WeatherDuino Pro2+" receiver unit. It has been a long time coming, but I have finally got around to getting a custom box designed and created to house the receiver.

Although this receiver was a little more expensive to purchase, it is so easy to assemble and you will have it up and running in no time. The extra parts that need to purchase are very easy to find on the internet as long as you do not mind the time it may take for them to be shipped.

The hardest thing I found was finding an enclosure I was happy with to house the circuit board. This is why I ultimately went off to a local plastics guy and got a design made exactly how I wanted it. This enclosure is 105mm wide x 105mm high x 50mm deep, giving plenty of space to work inside and wire things up.

You will see 4 LED's across the top. The first one (green) is a power light, useful to know the device is still on when the LCD screen may be turned off. Second in from the left is a blue LED which indicates data is being received from the transmitter. The third LED is a red one which will flash when data is being sent to the PC and other receivers in the home. Finally the last LED is connected to the GPO circuit and will come on when a set condition is met. I may look at customising the GPO to include a buzzer on the second relay control.

Hopefully this will give others some ideas on what can be created for their projects.

Happy Building!
PalmyWeather

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Congrat's for your building PalmyWeather ! Enjoy your new weather station

Congratulation! Good job.

Looks good. Any chance the plastics guy can make more and sell them?

(29-05-2017, 23:51)danner Wrote: [ -> ]Looks good. Any chance the plastics guy can make more and sell them?

I am sure he could create some more of these, he has kept a copy of it in case of any further work I may have. Of cause things would need to be considered like what size stand offs you use to hold the cirucit board and ensuring the USB port aligns with the same position as where I have it etc. I also needed to modify a USB cable (by exposing more of the metal plug) to fit into the USB socket on the WeatherDuino board due to the enclosure being made from 6mm thick plastic. You could get in touch with Julian at http://www.wecutshapes.co.nz/ . I am not sure about shipping however.